US 7,596,336 B2
Image forming apparatus for transmitting a control program to a plurality of sheet processing devices, and an image forming system
Takayuki Fujii, Toshima-ku (Japan); Manabu Yamauchi, Kashiwa (Japan); Naoto Watanabe, Abiko (Japan); Shunsuke Nishimura, Toride (Japan); Yushi Oka, Abiko (Japan); Toshiyuki Miyake, Toride (Japan); and Takashi Yokoya, Kashiwa (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/693,575.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-122384 (JP), filed on Apr. 26, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0253723 A1, Nov. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—75 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus operable with a first sheet processing device, a second sheet processing device and a third sheet processing device connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a memory configured to store a control program for the first, second, and third sheet processing devices; and
a controller configured to perform control so that the control program stored in the memory is transmitted to the first sheet processing device, the second sheet processing device or the third sheet processing device;
wherein, when the first sheet processing device and the second sheet processing device are sheet processing devices of the same type, the controller transmits the control program to the first sheet processing device, and after completion of the transmission, the controller causes the first sheet processing device to transmit the control program to the second sheet processing device while the controller transmits the control program to the third sheet processing device.